York House, Twickenham
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York House, Twickenham
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 27 Mar 2009
A 17th century mansion currently the municipal offices of the Borough of Richmond, who took it over in 1965 from the old Borough of Twickenham who had been there since 1924. A full and fascinating history is on http://www.richmond.gov.uk/local_history_york_house.pdf with lots of stuff about previous residents including a flurry of minor European Royals, some disguised in false beards, an Earl of Lonsdale who supported the right to play the fiddle on a Sunday, and a worthy member of the Society of Extreme Victorian Names, the diarist Mounstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.447697
Longitude
-0.324507